Supplying locomotives with coal



(No Model.)

J. B. COLLIN.

SUPPLYING LOCOMOTIVES WITH GOAL.

No. 245,350. Patented Au 9,1881,

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rrnn STATES PATENT ac SUPPLYING LOCOMOTIVES WITH COAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,350, dated August 9, 1881.

Applicationfiled June 23,1881. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J. B. COLLIN, of Altoona, county of Blair, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Method of Supplying Locomotives with Coal; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention is an improved method of supplying locomotives with coal, consisting, essentially, in the employment of the movement of the locomotive, in connection with proper hoisting mechanism, for lifting the coal from the ground to the requisite elevation for properly discharging the same into the tender, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a locomotive and a front elevation of the frame-work and the hoisting mechanism used in connection therewith for elevating the coal. Fig. 2, a plan view of thelocomotivetender and the hoisting'mechanism shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 a rear-end elevation of the tender and a side elevation of the frame-work and hoisting mechanism.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my method and to carry it practically into effect, I will proceed to describe the same fully, together with the means employed in connection therewith.

A general statement of the method may be made as follows: The power of thelocomotive is employed, in connection with the proper hoisting mechanism, for lifting the coal from the ground to the requisite elevation for properly discharging the same into the tender, the engine being so connected to the hoisting mechanism that when the same is moved into the proper position to receive the coal the receptacle carryingthe latter will be lifted into the proper position for discharging its contents into the tender.

The means employed for carrying the method practically into effect will now be described.

A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, represents any suitable D represents a coal-car, of any proper construction, which is adapted to enter the cage or frame B, as shown.

The rope or chain is of such length, and its end a" is attached to the locomotive at such a point, that the movement of the locomotive after the end an is attached thereto into the proper position to receive the coal will elevate the car into the proper position to discharge its contents into the tender.

The operation is substantially as follows: The coal-car D, having been loaded and moved into the cage by hand, is lifted at the proper time by the movement of the engine into the proper position to discharge its contents into the tender.

By the employment of this method of supplying the engine the necessity for extended elevated platforms is avoided.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v The described method of supplying locomotives with coal, consisting, essentially, in the employment of the movement'ofthe engine, in connection with hoisting mechanism, substantially as described, for elevating the coal into the proper position to be discharged into the tender.

This specification signed and witnessed this 20th day of June, 1881.

JOHN B. COLLIN. 

